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TWO VESSELS FROM CONTEMPORARY A SET OF FOUR ENAMELLED PLATES A PAIR OF ENAMELLED ‘FIVE BATS’
SENIOR MASTERS Dated 1950 DISHES AND COVERS
Zhai Xiaoxiang, 1995, and Master Professor Variously decorated with figures in Hongxian four-character marks, 20th century
Huang Yun Feng mountainous landscapes before retreats, a Each dish of stepped form, with a domed and
Comprising: a dish enamelled with three temple, in boats and a lone fisherman, all footed lid, the exterior with five bats swooping
carp swimming in a lotus pond, dated to within grisaille and iron red bat and foliate amongst auspicious multi-hued clouds, the
the Dinghai year (AD1995), signed by the borders, each inscribed with a description of lid similarly decorated. Each: 16cm (6 1/4in)
artist beside a red seal, fitted box; and a the scene, signed 鄧述堃 (Dengshukun) and diam. (4).
cylindrical vase painted in cobalt blue with a dated. 22cm (8 5/8in) diam (4).
craggy mountainous landscape beneath an £1,000 - 2,000
inscription. The dish: 21.5cm (8 1/2in) diam. £1,500 - 2,000 CNY8,800 - 18,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000 HK$9,700 - 19,000
£400 - 600 HK$15,000 - 19,000
CNY3,500 - 5,300 Please note that, on the invoice, Mr. Peter
HK$3,900 - 5,800 568 Wain suggested a date of c. 1920-25 for
A LARGE POLYCHROME ENAMELLED these pieces.
Provenance: The blue and white vase, Peter PROPAGANDA ‘MAO’ VASE
Wain, 14 March 2009 (receipt). Cultural Revolution period, dated by Provenance: Peter Wain, 28 June 2008
The enamelled dish, Peter Wain, 10 December inscription to 1972 (receipt).
2005 (receipt). The pear-shaped vessel depicting Chairman
The enamelled dish comes with a certificate of Mao, Premier Zhou and the Head of State Zhu Exhibited: Peter Wain, Heavenly Pieces,
authenticity signed by Mr. Zhai Xiaoxiang and in a garden of blooming peonies, surrounded an exhibition of porcelain of the early 20th
dated 1995. by a group of ethnic minority youths in century, 1993, no.15.
harmony, the reverse inscribed.
Illustrated: The dish, D. S. Howard, A Tale 46cm (18 1/8in) high Illustrated: Peter Wain, Heavenly Pieces,
of Three Cities, Sotheby’s, London, 1997, p. an exhibition of porcelain of the early 20th
262, pl. 362. £1,500 - 2,000 century, 1993, page 16, no. 15.
CNY13,000 - 18,000
HK$15,000 - 19,000

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